Most kids write to Santa Claus asking for toys, games or bikes.
Not 13-year-old Malik Bryant.
Instead, the boy, who calls Chicago’s high-poverty, high-crime Englewood neighborhood home, asked Santa for just one Christmas gift this year. In a letter collected through nonprofit group Direct Effect Charities’ annual Letters to Santa program, he asked for “safety. I just wanna be safe.”
According to the Chicago Sun-Times, which first reported Malik’s story on Monday, the boy’s letter struck a chord with Direct Effect CEO Michelle DiGiacomo, who reached out to her congressman, U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley, to bring the letter to his attention.
Though the letter didn’t make it to the North Pole, it did make it to the White House. NBC Chicago reports Quigley instructed his staff to contact President Barack Obama and make sure he saw the letter.
See it he did. On Sunday, Malik opened his letter from the president.
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